#Tweetdeck teams not working code#

“Twitter seems to be compounding the problem by trying to issue some significant changes whilst taking out swathes of its technical team.”įormer Twitter engineers involved in maintaining the platform, who were fired from the company as part of Musk’s mass layoffs, had previously warned that more sustained, frequent outages would occur as key parts of Twitter broke because overworked staff lacked the institutional knowledge and support to solve problems as they arose. “As we see layoffs in many of the big tech firms, I suspect the user experience will be impacted just as we’ve seen with Twitter,” said Alan Woodward, professor of cybersecurity at the University of Surrey.

Musk also asked staff to halt a cost-cutting move to reduce its use of Google Cloud hosting and to consolidate the number of data centres Twitter uses to store information – suggesting those could also have contributed to the outage. How Twitter's ad revenue collapsed after Elon Musk's takeover 17 July, 2023 Jeremy Vine receives libel payout from Twitter user who claimed he was accused BBC presenter 16 July, 2023 Opinion | Twitter’s demise will push us into smaller echo chambers - that can’t be good for politics 14 July, 2023īusiness publication Fortune first reported that in the immediate aftermath of the outage, Musk asked staff to “Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up.” One former senior engineer believes that changes to the API may have caused the problem. With so many fundamental changes happening to the platform’s infrastructure at once, i understands Twitter is still trying to figure out which of the changes triggered the outage.

#Tweetdeck teams not working code#

Twitter’s 550 or so engineers, down from the thousands it employed before Elon Musk’s takeover, had a month to develop and code the new character limits – a timeframe which they claim was unrealistic.Īt the same time, Twitter also unveiled a new cap on the number of tweets a user could post in a given day, and announced changes to how users could access its API, which is used by third-party services to access and post on Twitter, as well as by many automated accounts. But the outage, which Twitter acknowledged but has not provided an explanation for, is an indication of how little slack there is within the company to find and fix errors when they arise.Ī current Twitter staff member told i there were three “massive” bugs in the code that allows paying subscribers to Twitter Blue to post tweets up to 4,000 characters long.